The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of distinction between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
-- Sir William Francis Butler

Devotion to Duty: A Biography of Admiral Clifton A. F. Sprague

One of the unsung heroes of World War II, Clifton Sprague turned an almost inevitable American defeat at Leyte Gulf into a dramatic and important victory that shortened the war. This study draws on rich primary source materials to give us the first full-fledged biography of the admiral.